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Street: Reagan and Amnesia
Znet Article, June, 16 2004
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It's not for nothing that the elimination and distortion of popular historical memory has always been a central project of totalitarianism. The accurate and widespread understanding of the past is critical for effective popular government. Like ...
Street: Bill Cosby and White America
Znet Article, June, 01 2004
Paul Street
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Bill Cosby's decision to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education decision by proclaiming that poor black people deserve their fate at the bottom of America's steep socioeconomic pyramid has delighted many white American...
Street: Slaves Had Jobs Too
Znet Article, May, 26 2004
Paul Street
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"I don't know if they are trying to find a way into the city," black Chicago West Side pastor Joseph Kyles told the Chicago Tribune three weeks ago, "or if they are genuinely wanting to take the lead in dealing with the city's social ills" (Dan Mi...
Street: Brown v. Board Fifty Years Out
Znet Article, May, 16 2004
Paul Street
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Brown v. Board Fifty Years Out
Street: Predictable Prison Atrocities
Znet Article, May, 09 2004
Paul Street
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Being left, knowing some history, and paying reasonable attention to United States policy and society and current events mean rarely being surprised at egregious violations committed by people who command and wear the uniform of the United States....
Street: Let them eat cakewalk
Znet Article, May, 04 2004
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Let them eat cakewalk
Street: Big City Columnist Rejects Chance to Tell the Truth About U.S. Policy
Znet Article, April, 30 2004
Paul Street
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If only more American journalists would fulfill the mission of their profession by consisitently working to discover and tell the truth, then maybe more young American soldiers can be saved from needless deaths. For a case in point, I recommend a ...
Street: Thought Control
Znet Article, April, 27 2004
Paul Street
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Thought Control
Street: Killing Us Softly
Znet Article, April, 21 2004
Paul Street
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"Ease Your Pain" The other day I was in the grocery store waiting to check out, with my local newspaper in hand. The front page carried a graphic photograph of a United States Marine breaking down a door in "a house-to-house search for weapons ...
Street: Scholars to Working America:
Znet Article, April, 13 2004
Paul Street
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"We're Not Supposed to Be Doing This to Our Kids" Ordinary working people without advanced degrees and professional titles in Griffith, Indiana get it: the United States occupation of Iraq is a reckless mission that is costing young Americans t...
Street: They Call This A Debate?
Znet Article, April, 11 2004
Paul Street
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I hate to say it but the current big Richard A. Clarke/Condaleeza Rice debate on what might have been done to prevent 9/11 is straight out of Chomsky. By this I mean it’s taking place within an incredibly narrow set of moral, ideologi...
Street: Kerry is Coke, Bush is Crack
Znet Article, March, 24 2004
Paul Street
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Support Kerry Doesn't Deserve John Kerry is pretty hard for any leftist to take. There's the painful conflict between his super-privileged, Harvard pedigreed background and his comically stiff attempts to sound like a working peoples' populist. ...
Street: Don't Play With Our Dead
Znet Article, March, 17 2004
Paul Street
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Beyond Good versus Evil: an Unwelcome Surprise for the White House The United States could learn a thing or two about politics, media, public morality and the meaning of democracy from Spain. Jolted by an apparent al Qaeda terror attack, the Spa...
Street: Those Who Deny the Crimes of the Past
Znet Article, March, 11 2004
Paul Street
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The U.S. Marines stood by and did nothing while the library at the Aristide Foundation was burned. With my own eyes I saw the American Marines stand and watch while rebels cut a woman and shot her. I yelled at them, "Do something!" and they swung ...
Street: To the "Frontline" and Back
Znet Article, February, 28 2004
Paul Street
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Traveling across the mainstream American corporate-state television broadcast spectrum with an eye for the sickening truth of United States policy is like watching the stars for certain astronomical occurrences. Most of your time is spent pe...
Street: Education Case Study
Znet Article, February, 27 2004
Paul Street
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Sometimes the masters of policy and opinion speak most loudly through their silences. In such cases, it's what they fail to mention and what they choose to delete that says the most about who they are and what they are generally about: preserving ...
Street: Republicans, Cities, and Cruise Ships
Zmag Article, February, 01 2004
Paul Street
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U nited States House of Representatives Majority Leader Tom DeLay, who comes from the suburbs of Houston, wants to minimize contact between Republican Party delegates and the people of New York Cit...
Street: Smiling Under the Names of the Dead
Znet Article, January, 30 2004
Paul Street
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Smiling Under the Names of the Dead
Street: Dean, Democrats, and Democracy
Znet Article, January, 26 2004
Paul Street
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A Screaming Nut Maybe…. Left democrats should not mourn the Iowa debacle and possible unraveling of Howard Dean’s supposedly populist Democratic presidential campaign. There are at least two reasons for them to hold back the tears...
